Muhammad West – A Life Worth Living

			I'll be live in a second rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen or salat wa
salam ala Ashraf in water, saline Satana Muhammad Ali he also big Marian and beloved brothers and
sisters salam Wa alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen praise and
worship Allah Subhana Allah, masha Allah Allahu Allah and we believe that nun has died of worship
because Allah Subhana Allah and we send our love, including so beloved W Muhammad Salah Laura they
will send them to his pious and pure family to his companions and all those who are following suit
and until the end of time, may Allah grant us to be set forth upon the Sunnah of W Muhammad
		

			Sallallahu wasallam in this life, and in his companionship in genital Theodosian the Ashira Amina Al
Hamdulillah. I begin today Subhan Allah, watching so many of our loved ones who have passed away
during this difficult time in our ground, all those who have passed away, genital Theodosian Mothra.
There are many more that are ill some very close to us. And we ask Allah Subhana Allah to grant him
Shiva. And as we are surrounded by by death, and we surrounded by this pandemic, he has to remind us
about our own mortality, it must remind us, I want you to close your eyes and picture this the
scene, you know these a masjid, and in this masjid, you see your loved ones, maybe it's your your
		

			spouse, your husband, your wife, your kids, are they crying, your friends, your neighbors, the
people that you work with, they are the and it is your job as panela you don't see yourself in the
crowd, but you realize it is your job as I realized it is my job as and this day will come. Finally
it is not something fantastical, it's not a fantasy, it is a reality, it will come and when that
moment comes hon Allah they cannot be a delay in it, it cannot be postponed. We can be no reprieve.
Whatever we are, whatever we have achieved in this life, our account will be closed our books will
be will be closed and will be completed for the good or for the bad. And so Subhanallah we ask on
		

			that day on our janazah Yes, there will be those who are dearest, closest to us that will cry. But
would they really miss us after a week, two weeks, three weeks? Would our colleagues our community,
what would they say about us? What is the life that we have left behind what is the legacy that we
left behind? If after a few weeks, has no one missed us And subhanAllah even worse than that, as the
world being a better place after we left there are some people's kind of Allah that when they die,
people genuinely Muslim that you feel the absence you feel that these are the world is not as bright
as it was. After that lift, there is a hole where they will once were these are all missing in that
		

			and they are some people's Pinilla after the lift, people are actually happy and they are relieved
that they are gone. And so every one of us we are only on this planet 6074 Lucky 80 Maybe more
years, maybe less, some of us are taken early, some are taken late, but we none of us very few of us
if ever will even reach to 100 panela. And if we if you look at where you are in your life, where I
where I am in my life, you know Subhanallah This is very, very close. And so we need to ask
ourselves what legacy we will leave behind. When I go and I live with Allah, Allah takes me a while
if anything of substance, Allah speaks about fear, and the people of their own and the people who in
		

			a time was seen as the most successful and the most powerful, the most well to do people when they
will take him on Allah subhanaw taala to Crim Allah says Come Takumin Jen Jannetty noir Yun How much
did they leave behind have gardens and springs beautiful beautiful plantations and gardens was an
all in one a common Kareem and crops all kinds of assets and resources. You know our terms? Maybe it
is, you know, companies and cars and you know, bank accounts of gold how much of that they leave?
Why am I coming Kareem and beautiful houses lovely lovely palaces and houses are not my team can
Luffy have hacky him and comforts luxuries of this life where they used to enjoy themselves. They
		

			had the full enjoyment of this life. Can Alec and then just like that all of a sudden, overnight
with a blink of an eye. Oh, Rosner, Coleman a hurry. Another group of people inherited what they
left behind all the life's work, all those assets, all those years that we've been slogging in that
company, you know, all the time this really paying off that debt bond. You know, Soprano even said a
halau bond. We're not even talking about the Haram bond, where we earn Riba and sin on top of it. We
talked about that halaal bond, we've been slugging for 2030 years to pay off that house, or when
it's done all of a sudden, someone else inherited, inherited your kids, maybe they sell it, and they
		

			take that money and they go on a holiday. Subhan Allah, Allah says all of that effort, it gets taken
by someone else, you die and you leave it behind from our bucket, Allah USANA Well, I don't know how
sad this is. Allah says that no one in the heavens of the earth cried over the Muslim, no one ever
key that they were gone, they will basically the world moved on and they had passed away. Or Monica
animalium. Allah subhanaw taala gave them no respite. They had achieved all this luxury, and it was
taken away in a blink of an eye and then we'll move on and you were replaced, and everything
continued as if though nothing happened the next day. Subhan Allah and this is the reality of life.
		

			Then there are other people's behind Allah. There are people will only live one life, but they live
		

			For many, many millions, billions of lives, we think of the Great's hub of the past. We think of the
great scholars of the past the great scientists and some of the great kings and people that you know
change the world for the better we look at look at someone like Yamaha Rahimullah, he only lived
maybe 60 years panela but there is not a single person on this dunya a Muslim whenever you mix a
Salah when you ever ye does anything of a bida or a Imam that gives a hoot but we personally gives a
lecture except that Imam Muhammad Rahim Allah Imam Shafi Rambo Khalifa is getting a share of that
reward. And subhanAllah you ask who was the Khalifa in a time of Imam Ali, who was the richest man
		

			in the world who the most famous person in the world in the time of Abu Hanifa. We don't know these
people, they names are forgotten. Ask yourself who was even the most powerful, the richest person in
the time of our parents or grandparents. We don't know who they were today. Yes, we know Bill Gates
and Jeff Bezos, tomorrow there will be forgotten, no one is going to know who they are, and then
we'll move on. But people will leave an enduring legacy people who have changed the world for the
better, they will be remembered for eternity and SubhanAllah. For us as Muslims, it is not about
being remembered and to be mentioned, and it is good to be mentioned by later generations, even an
		

			Abraham Lincoln set up meters so that he would be have his name would be remembered by pious people
in the future, meaning his legacy will live on for us we want our legacy to last in the sight of
Allah subhanaw taala. And every single person has that potential. It does not mean that the Sahaba
and the great Tabby or even the only of Allah and the great scholars and the people who change the
world that they had any supernatural powers above us. They only had more sincerity and more
dedication than us. And so when we look back at the legacy of this ummah, highs and lows, success
and failures, difficult times and good times, it was written by the inking of the lives of amazing
		

			and extraordinary people, people who lived an extraordinary life that changed the world that they
lived only a few years like us, they only had the same time like us. But they changed the world that
when they died, the world was a very different place from what the one they found it. And we don't
even have to look that far, which look here in our local context. We are a community that I say
many, many times, we should not have survived. If you study the history of so many Muslim
minorities, you know, millions millions of Muslims were taken from Africa to North America as slaves
and are millions of people there were Muslims practicing the deen, but they didn't got lost along
		

			the way. So many people when they leave their homelands, they go to non Muslim countries, the deen
is disappeared completely. Year in South Africa, a small group of tiny tiny community was brought as
slaves to the end of the world. And they brought with them the Islam and 350 years, Allah granted
the legacy to continue. You meet every single Masjid every single organization, every radio station,
every person is learning half it is in the scales of those pioneers who preserve the deen in very,
very difficult times through slavery, through colonialism, through apartheid, through all the
difficulties they preserve the dean, and we live the lifestyle of they had kids, they went to the
		

			main street, they eat, they sleep, they live their life as we live, but with that they had a
dedication for something bigger than themselves. And Allah subhanaw taala granted that long after
that passed away 300 years after they passed away, we are still benefiting that tree that they
planted. It is truly reaping fruits that is benefiting you and me and he's benefiting them in the
cover. So what a legacy they leave behind. We don't even have to go so far and talk about one guru
and, you know, the great people of our legacy and Cape Town in South Africa, our grandparents, our
parents, you know, they lived through one of the worst systems in the world apartheid system. And
		

			whatever little struggles they made, some had a few some made small sacrifices, something great
sacrifices, they were able to change a government and they were able to keep this country from
falling into civil war. And so they had the challenges and they had the hardships and they did their
part and ALLAH subhanaw taala you know, they did what they had to do. And so Subhan Allah Allah
Subhana Allah says in surah baqarah Tinto omoton Kohala to when you become nostalgic, and we think
of the past, we think of the Sahaba the tabby and we think of our parents and the grandparents.
Allah says that is a nation which has passed on the time came Allah gave them the challenges and
		

			they did what they did llama cassava qualico, maca sub two, they will have a reward or consequence
for beautiful bad for what they had and they will be judged based on the exam meaning you know it's
exam time now almost says for every people for every generation, they get the tests and they exams
sometimes it's good sometimes it's difficult, but it's at least from Allah Subhana Allah and they
will be judged according to what they did with a time for them is the test. Wala qu maca sub two and
you will have what you earn me and you and as we are here today, you know in this year in this
decade, that we will be we will be judged according to what we do right now in our time. And we will
		

			not be asked Allah says you will not be asked of the past of the people of the past.
		

			nor will they be asked about you. So when we take a pause and we look at where we are today, as a as
an ummah, globally, we take pause and we look at where we are as a community here locally with all
the problems and this panel, or we can point out so many problems, it doesn't take an island or move
to someone with a PhD to point out all the problems that we have, as an ummah, or as a community or
even, you know, as the human race, man, Allah. And in fact, we speak about this quite regularly, you
know, inspiring and encouraging people to do something great to get involved and to be proactive,
because this is what the objective of this talk is, the only way you will leave a legacy is if you
		

			will think beyond just your nine to five job thing just beyond just looking after my kids, and you
know, saving some money and building a house. And if I'm lucky, I'm gonna go on a holiday and you
know, think bigger than that have a bigger goal than that. And so you have to be aware that you are
part of a much bigger Ummah, the word Ummah, comes from home from mother, and we are from one one
womb, we are from one world, one body. And so we need to think about what is happening in our
community and the rest of the world. And yes, we can point out all the problems. I mean, we say
this, you know, statistically, we are, we are 24% or 25% of the world's population, you know, one
		

			quarter of the world is Muslim, yet only we only contribute 8% of the GDP of the world, only 8% of
our of our Ummah is educated, you know, from a postgraduate degree we are, you know, we are on the
lowest rung as almighty so, so sad, yet the answer these many positives, and especially for us
living in this community, in South Africa, of the most fortunate Muslim community in the world of
the most fortunate Muslim, and definitely perhaps the most fortunate Muslim minorities in the world,
we have opportunities to do a lot, and to change a lot, and to really leave something of a legacy
behind. And so Subhanallah when we look at all these problems, compounded on that when we last gave
		

			this talk, it was before COVID, 90 Now 2020, the world has turned upside down. What was difficult in
the past is even more difficult. Now, whatever is happening, Swan like you think it was difficult in
the past, in Palestine, in Kashmir, in Syria, in Afghanistan, can we imagine how difficult it is
now, in those countries with this disease, even orphan each was struggling, how more difficulties
and we even see locally masajid organizations that were strong before this history, Allah subhanaw
taala had put this hardship upon the world, it has become even more difficult now. So many people
have lost their jobs and lost their homes. And so we have the problems all around us. As I said, it
		

			doesn't take it doesn't take someone with a PhD to understand these problems. But what it does take
what is hard is to actually come up with a solution is to do something about it. And it's not for
one person to fix all the problems, but it is for every single one of us to get involved in some
small way and make a change. And uh, you know, spinal, it is in these difficult moments, where the
real, the real reward is given. It is in times like this, this is an opportunity. The people of the
past when they saw something difficult when they saw that there was some kind of shortage when there
was some kind of community issue. They took that as an opportunity to really raise their ranks last
		

			time. We spoke about St. Northman. Last week about you know, the expansion of the motion, there was
a need to expand this, you know, double we and he took it upon the you know, upon himself I'm going
to solve this problem. And in that he earned his Jana one good deeds panela one good deed, and the
province is on set for this year of man, Allah has guaranteed you, Jana, you can do a deed that is
so beautiful, and it makes such an impact. It might not look big on the outside, but it was so pure
in the sight of Allah Subhana Allah that Allah has guaranteed you your Jana, you purchased your
Jenga with that, and SubhanAllah. When we look at the problems in our community, whatever it might
		

			be, we can list them. Look at each one of them as an opportunity to earn your agenda for me to earn
my gender. Allah has put this in front of you, what are you going to do about it? What are you going
to contribute? And so what legacy are we going to what legacy are we going to leave behind?
		

			So the prophets of salaam reminds us we ever start a good tradition. And it's about starting it, it
doesn't mean that you've achieved the full exam, you just got the ball rolling, who ever start
something and it is followed and later on it is built on by others, then you will get the reward
from it, and the likes of the reward of whoever follows him. And so whatever you start, even if this
thing continues, 100 years after you pass away, you began your contribution to the machine, long
after you die. The that good deed continues to outlive you will continuously benefit from that good
deed without diminishing from those who are doing it. And whoever of course starts a bad tradition
		

			will ever begin something negative And subhanAllah there are people and Allah have mercy upon us and
forgive us that sadly after they die, the good deeds have come to an end but they sin continues
things they put online people that they've heard that continue to hold grudges against them after
they died. This continues to be a source of punishment and misery in May cover long after the dies
all the processes
		

			Those who saw a bad tradition which is followed, then for him is a share of that sin, and the
likeness of all the people that were affected by that sin long after they died, he will get a share
with that, and then without it being diminished between them. We know also Subhanallah there is the
special category of satirical geria, that the Prophet says when a man dies, his deeds come to an
end. This is even for the Wali of the holy of Allah, a man who was tortured, fasting and
Hamdulillah. May Allah make us amongst them, even the best of the best in terms of the personal
Ebola with Allah, it can only you can only make so much Obeida before you die, and then your life
		

			would have been over and your good deeds will come to an end. But there's a special category of deed
that continues even after you die. And that is that Serato Jharia. And the promise on them, of
course, explain. There are three types of SATA couple Jharia. There is an intangible, a benefit that
is spiritual, like knowledge that you leave behind, leave behind some kind of You can't touch it,
you can't feel it, like knowledge, but it benefits people long after you pass away, teach someone
something, get involved in a school, get involved in a website that is doing something good,
whatever it might be long after you die, that knowledge that benefit gets passed on from generation
		

			to generation. And in your cover. You are being elevated by Allah or something a masjid physical you
lift a well behind, you lift the machine behind a school behind, it doesn't mean that you bought the
whole school but you and your friends got to give us Pamela you know, well, maybe in a think of the
season village out this hon Allah, you know, it will take maybe a few 1000 and and you and your
friends and your family get together and you put together and you buy this Well, long after you die
that well is still feeding people it is still saving lives. And subhanAllah you get that reward. We
know the good deed of that lady, she went to jail she was a prostitute. And in her community, she
		

			was seen as all she was is the prostitute. Yet she gave me no she gave that dog a sip of water. And
this was not in the time of Namita Salam this was in the time of bunnies or eel you know many 1000s
of years before going to Allah. Allah was so impressed and so loving of that good deed that this
lady had done, that Allah inspiring me some tell your people that there was this lady who was a
prostitute, she did what she did for money, but she gave a sip of water to a starving dog. And so
she earned forgiveness and she and Jana and tell you Uma about it, they should take her as role
models. panela. Now if this is for a dog, what about a well, for a village of people that are dying
		

			of thirst, you know, 30,050 1000 that is between 1020 peoples cannula. It is something that is can
maybe be manageable, and it will be continuously used in your in your agile. So we leave behind
something physical of benefit, a tree that you plan to handle, it will last long of you, the animals
have benefit from it, the animals that come under the shade someone that's liens against it, it will
benefit you while that that tree is making oxygen that people breathe in, you will get the reward in
that Subhanallah so many opportunities for us to to excel, and of course to leave behind pious
children that make dua for you, not just the children's door, but maybe we leave behind friends, we
		

			leave behind the spouse we leave behind people that genuinely love us people that genuinely
genuinely were impacted by our our presence, and they remember us fondly and they make dua for us,
then this count Subhanallah, you know, scale of goodness. And so it is a choice. How do I live my
life? How do I interact with people every time you know, sometimes you get an email from someone,
you had an interaction with someone, it wasn't the best, but you have an opportunity to rise above
so that that person's Pahala or remember you fondly on your day of your Janessa every time you need
to do something, think about my janazah What do I want people to say while they're eating after
		

			you're very tight Allah Now we come home and we have the acne? What do they say about you? You don't
want to be that guy that people say, you know, it said, you know, he waits, she went it wasn't very
unexpected. But Subhanallah it's not say anything. We don't want to speak bad of the date. So how do
you find that antigen as people say, there is nothing good they can say about this man. It's not the
it's not the fault of the Mussolini's it's the fault of the man that has passed away. There's
nothing good we can say about this brother. So we'd rather keep quiet, the best thing we can do is
keep quiet and ask Allah to forgive him. Subhanallah let's not be of those people are all the we
		

			want to be that the world is bitterly sad, that as Allah said, that is not only the people, but this
summer what and the out of the cry of this man, this woman has lived that the world is a lesser
place because they are God. You can meet that person, I can be that person. How do we build the
sleazy? Subhan Allah, what do we do? Is there a way Is there a formula that I can leave behind
something of real substance that I don't just want to be the guy that worked 60 years in my job,
then I retired and then I you know, went on a few holidays and I became sick and I died and that was
it and I had some grandchildren and that was my life. I want more than that for myself. I want
		

			something greater to present to Allah my life Tiana, what can I do? And the first thing and this is
something that really makes the difference. This is the
		

			That's sincere Nia in your heart that I want to do this for you, yeah, Allah, I want to change the
world I want to do will not even change the world of every person, I want to change the world of one
person for the better for your secure Allah and to earn my Jannah through that year, Allah, I just
do have that key, to have that ambition to have that motivation and to be sincere for the sake of
Allah, that is the beginning. And that is really, that is 90% of the battle. You know, even if we
make that near, and nothing becomes of that near, you will still get the reward of the near
SubhanAllah. And so it requires a moment for us to pause, maybe if you're listening to this lecture,
		

			to pause after this, this talk and think about where is my life going? And if I continue on this
what will I have less of a legacy? And is it Am I satisfied with it? If I'm not going to pause and
think about what can I do? And with it Neerja Allah dua Allah, I want to do more, and I want to
leave behind because I believe I'm especially if put me here for a reason. Let me do something
special for your sake. And of course, it is. It is some sometimes we feel to think big and feel to
have big ambitions really, this is belittling yourself and it's belittling of Allah Subhana Allah,
Allah put you here at this time and this at this point, as I said in the previous ayah, Allah says
		

			this, this was to a nation before for every generation, our sins difficulties, but he also seems the
cure, and he seems the people who can do it, you and I are here during this pandemic flu the reason
they are no better people that could be the new Omi and these Reasons Allah Subhana Allah has put us
here so we can earn our Jana and we can solve these problems. You know, Hassan bursary, the great 30
Right, so this is the generation of the Sahaba and of course, the tabby ain, they were like the
Sahaba but they were not of the same caliber of the sahaba. So hustle bustle, he addresses his
fellow a terrain and he says to them, you know, what is the difference between us and Abu Bakr?
		

			Right Abu Bakr, the Alon is of course of a higher level because he's the greatest of Sahaba. So he
says to the time you're in, but Abu Bakr did not excel over us in the number of rocker as he made,
you know, or the number of fasting he made or the number of charity he gave, you know, the pious
people you have earlier today that that makes it spin the night in tahajjud. And they fast Mondays
and Thursdays, there are five days in the masjid, they fast in the middle of a month. This is equal
to the Sahaba they basically maxing out in terms of your good deeds. There's not much more you can
do in a day in terms of Ascar make, you know, Abu Bakr Rajan lived his life he made Salah you went
		

			to sleep, so hustle bustle is saying to tambien, that we are doing exactly as Abu Bakr did in terms
of personal Ibadah we are doing the same, but what made Abubaker a level above us and the Sahaba a
level above us is something in the heart, that sincerity with Allah, that beautiful desire to want
to do something that Allah for your sake, to want to give something back to humanity, not for praise
not for thanks not for, for for mansion or fame, just for the sake of pleasing Allah. This in the
heart is what made the Sahaba in the great people above us. It's not that they had any special
power. But it was this insanity in their heart that left behind. You look at the great scholars of
		

			the past. Now we for example, you only lived 40 years panela and I think I'm not far off in some of
us are not far off from that mark of 40 years. Some of us have passed that Mark, why did I leave
behind I'm now Mullah. He left more books behind the number of years he lived if you add up how did
this man write so many books and he only lived so few years? It is because Allah allows through the
sincerity of your your heart, that beautiful connection you have with Allah. Allah gives you that
extra power, that extra ability that really takes you to the next level. It is that sincerity that
will grant you a legacy that leaves behind another reminder, my Malika from Allah. Correct great
		

			Imam Malik. You wrote a book called the moonwalk before body before Muslim before the books of
Hadith. Well, it's in the great books of Hadith. Imam Malik was of the first year of the first books
of Hadith called the moonwalk bop. And after he wrote his book, The miwako many many other mortars
came about many other scholars of Hadith wrote books, some of them even better than Imam Malik
Mamata, and some of the students said to him, Oh, Mr. Malik, you know, we see so many more workers
now that you wrote us many copycats have come and they've written and they've actually included on
your book. So what do you say about that? So Imam Malik said, That which is sincerely done for Allah
		

			sake, will remain until Qiyamah. If you've done something, truly for the sake of Allah, Allah will
care for that good deed until until Kiana and now 1400 years later. We don't know of any more other
than the motto of Imam Malik Allah kept that and preserved it because of the sincerity of your of
your Nia. So when you do a good deed, you put that five grand in the hands of a beggar. You make
that sandwich with someone that knocks on the door. You put that today
		

			And in the in the towel of the masjid you make an EFT for that often do it sincerely yeah Allah I
want to make this person's a burden a little bit easier. I want to remove someone's hardship I want
to bring a smile to someone's face and happiness to someone's heart and I want to please your Allah
I'm doing this not that anyone can see but just so that you can see this could be that did that
interview me into Jana mela granted so so have a sincere Nia number one and think big and dream big
Nia it's not just about you know, no way to it is about ya Allah I have a big dream, a big idea. I
want to do this thing. As much as we dream about traveling the world and building, you know, living
		

			in the most beautiful of houses, ever dream about living, leaving a legacy behind when number two is
to understand that you are here for a reason. You have a talent, you have a gift, Allah subhanaw
taala has not made you here by accident, you're not by chance. And so what is it that you can
contribute, that if you're a youngster, you're an old sir, you are educated, you are not educated,
you have something Allah has given you, you are good at something. And so you cannot fix every
problem. And like all the Sahaba were not the same. They were the scholars, they were the Warriors
they were the the business people. It requires everyone to use their talents for the benefit of the
		

			community. If Allah has given you money, then that is your opportunity to earn your Jana, if Allah
has given you strength, and that is your opportunity to engender you Allah has given you patience,
you've always given your knowledge, ability to read or write, then that is your chance to be used to
intergender I promise you, whoever you are, as little as you think of yourself, there is some
organization, there is some person who is making dua for you, you are the tool to the problem, you
are the answer to the DUA. This is what we believe Allah Subhana Allah has given all of us the
ability to know your strengths, know your your abilities, look at the problems in see way best I can
		

			fit in. And if you don't know where you can fit in, And subhanAllah just begin, pick up the phone,
ask you Imam, ask whatever organization, what can I do to assist, I want to be part of something
bigger than me. And this is the beginning of the starting. That is difficult. And remember, the
start is the hard part. The stock is the part that also gets you the most good deeds, the first few
steps, the early Sahaba are the ones that are better than the latest Sahaba, the first person who
wrote you know, the first compilers of Hadith are better than those who wrote later on. That is why
the savvy corner alone, the early generations are the ones that that get the most good deeds. So you
		

			see a problem in your community. You know, subhanAllah many times we see why isn't the for example,
an online madrasa? Why isn't the an organization that takes care of of this problem? I see it, pick
up the phone, you have a WhatsApp group asked your friends in your Whatsapp group, why isn't this
being sorted out in the community? Why is in this issue that we have in our, in our school, there's
something broken, no one is fixing it. You ask your friends, even when say we feel the same way,
call a meeting, let's get together, let's do something, let's look at solutions and look at how we
can solve a problem. That beginning is the start you don't know that was planting the seeds of
		

			canola, you don't know what that seed will grow to, you don't know Subhanallah you got to give a
meeting in your living room. That meeting a few years later becomes an organization a few years
later that organization because many many organizations it goes international Subhanallah you know
all the big companies in the world Google Amazon, they tell you it began a few friends in some
someone's basement or someone's parents house, they got together they said we should have a company
like this, that became the biggest company in the world. And subhanAllah it is the same, it is the
same a few of you get together look at a problem and say how can we solve it? Let's look let's let's
		

			inspect let's do some research. And from there it will become it can become something great in the
sight of Allah. So be consistent and work hard. Number three point number three, of course, it is
about perseverance, that nothing of substance comes except with some patients and Allah subhanaw
taala will not make it easy and just give it for free. It requires some kind of effort. People join
Alhamdulillah you know, committees, they join certain organizations, you know, they get inspired and
then after the first difficulty, the first hiccup the first you know, nasty email the first meeting
that is a bit long the first you know, difficult problem that they have to resolve, then they want
		

			to quit this and you know, I didn't sign up for this model that is exactly what you signed up for.
You signed up for doing something difficult for the sake of the Ummah to spend your time your money
to be inconvenienced. Yeah, Allah I could be doing a million things. I could be sleeping, I could be
watching TV, I could be doing anything. But I'm doing this for your sake. Yeah, Allah and I know
that you see it, and I do it so that you may may reward me and bring Baraka in me. There is a great
book called the mythos of the Quran, me it's the dictionary of the words of the Quran. So there was
a scholar with about 1000 years ago, he wrote the first diction he took every word in the Quran, and
		

			he explained the meanings, Pamela, sidenote, these great scholars who wrote this book, Imam Bukhari
Imam
		

			Alec, who wrote these books that we are using today? They got zero in terms of royalty. What drove
them to do this? What inspired a man to spin his life to write a book, you know, some of these
books, like, you know, the books that we have some I'm looking at my shelf here, you have books that
have 30 volumes. It took the man it took the scholar, a decade, more than a decade to compile and
write no spell check, no goo No, no Google to research. It is blood, sweat and tears in that book
for what what did he get out of it? No royalty, no publisher, he wrote, and he didn't even know if
there's anyone that's going to look at this book. But I don't think for the sake of Allah insha
		

			Allah I write it, I leave it to Allah. And hopefully one day now 1000 years later, in Cape Town, on
Muhammad West shelf is this man's books Han Allah that we read, we benefit it is shared around the
world, and he gets a reward and he could not have imagined it will be that. And so getting back to
this book, the dictionary of the Quran, these are what a son a son is the highest level of Iman and
a scholar. He writes the definition what does he mean? A son means that's the level of sincerity,
whenever you interact with someone whenever you ask for something, you give more of yourself than is
required. So you mean to give x you give x plus more, you give an extra amount. And when you are
		

			expected to get something in return, you are satisfied with getting less because you do that extra
bit is purely for the sake of Allah. So do not be deterred by hardship, to be patient and struggle
through that thing. And then number four, do not be put off track by setbacks. With every path is
going to be some bumps along the way. They're going to be those who are naysayers, do not let them
detail you you persist, no matter how difficult things are, and you continue. And then of course,
lastly, it is to constantly depend on Allah. Remember, we did this for the sake of Allah and in
Allah's hands, this thing will either flourish or the award will come even if he does not flourish
		

			and Allah that you planted the seed and you say, Yeah, Allah, I leave the seed in your case, I did
this for your sake. And so you make dua for that. Yeah, Allah. The Prophet SAW Selim says, look at
this the power of dua, and the power of a sincere and here the prophets is whoever honestly
genuinely makes dua that he wants to be Ushahidi Allah, I want to have the reward of a shade.
Remember the Shahada? When an OBE will see Dino shahada, they are the third highest category after
the enemies and acidic styles category you can achieve after the Siddiq is the Shaheed so the reason
he genuinely wants to be a shade and he likes to are to be a shahid, Allah will grant him the reward
		

			of a shade even if he dies in his bed. So if you genuinely want to do something of substance in this
dunya, then make dua for it at least make you at least want it in your heart and make dua and Allah
will do the rest. Last Hadith the Prophet Solomon says and he speaks about Jana and how amazing Jana
is when he says the best place of Jana is Jana to pharaohs. This is of course, the highest place of
Jana Whelan abhi himself, Salah Salah will be and the Gambia and all the great people will be that
is the highest that is the bishop bishops court of Jana, the Clifton of Jana is gentle for those
under it above Jana, to funerals, the next the name of them for those is the parish of Allah, there
		

			is no one closer to Allah than the people of genital to dos. Now that our resources to you and me as
weak as we are, as you know, as inferior as we are the provinces. When you ask ALLAH ask Allah for
genital Thibodaux, meaning every single one of you should believe that you have the ability to
achieve general through those. Look how high even ambition wants us to aim. Don't aim for Jana in
Fujian battlefield DOS, don't aim for something small aim for something big aim for the highest. So
when you and I sit and we want to make this near the righteous Aimia Allah I only want to do a small
thing am I want to change the world yet Allah I want to fix all the problems of his dunya helped me
		

			Allah to do it. In big and Subhan Allah, if you aim big, even if you don't achieve genital for
those, you might achieve the level and after genital Philadelphia you might get the next level. So
if you ever if you aim small, you will never ever get to the mark you'll never get to general for
those not Allah grant us to live life lives that are meaningful that when we die, but yes, our
family sad, we don't want to see them sad. But people will say that this was they will look at us
and actually envy us in a good way. And this man this woman lived a life to be to be proud of that
this person did so much of good. They were part of so many organizations, they set up so many
		

			machines they helped so many people how did they do this? You know you scratch your head you think
how did this man do it? How do you live a life like that? We want to be people like this not for
them to say but so that Allah subhanaw taala can love us and that we can achieve that general videos
mean just one or two announcements. The first thing is of potassium early the marine of our budget
for so long. And his wife and the other we're they're quite ill. They're both in ICU. So we also
must have data to make to offer them that Allah can on some trial runs all those who are ill a
machine
		

			I want them to have a complete cure of this, of this disease and Allah remove this disease from us.
I mean, and then also a reminder about the kind of situation that the organization is currently in.
We are asking for assistance. Just a clarification, I said last week, we have three buildings where
we is taxes to be paid on rates, they are in areas, it is the school and it is our our center. So
the school obviously teaches the kids and the center we we do, the Islamic exhibition is the it is
also the place where we do the social welfare people come daily for the soup kitchen. So these
buildings are used for the service of the community. But of course, these rates that needs to be
		

			paid. If anyone can assist, you know, to solving this problem. We appreciate your time more than
your time. But if you're unable to give your time then of course, a few rands to assist will be much
appreciated and from the law, the magic, the magic is secure. While Hamdi ledges aka the Hydra was
Allah Allah Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam was funny when having an Arabic Allah me